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ladies'

/ley-dee/US // ˈleɪ di //UK // (ˈleɪdɪ) //

女士们的,女士的,女士们的,女士们

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n.名词 noun
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    plural la·dies.

    • : a woman who is refined, polite, and well-spoken: She may be poor and have little education, but she's a real lady.
    • : a woman of high social position or economic class: She was born a lady and found it hard to adjust to her reduced circumstances.
    • : any woman; female: the lady who answered the phone; a saleslady.
    • : : Ladies and gentlemen, welcome.Lady, out of my way, please.
    • : wife: The ambassador and his lady arrived late.
    • : Slang. a female lover or steady companion.
    • : Lady, the proper title of any woman whose husband is higher in rank than baronet or knight, or who is the daughter of a nobleman not lower than an earl.
    • : a woman who has proprietary rights or authority, as over a manor; female feudal superior.Compare lord.
    • : Lady, the Virgin Mary.
    • : a woman who is the object of chivalrous devotion.
    • : Usually Lady . an attribute or abstraction personified as a woman; a designation of an allegorical figure as feminine: Lady Fortune;Lady Virtue.a title prefixed to the name of a goddess: Lady Venus.
adj.形容词 adjective
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    • : Sometimes Offensive. being a female: a lady reporter.
    • : of a lady; ladylike; feminine.

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Examples

  • Some of her early songs were so pointedly feminist that radio stations wouldn’t play them, yet she also wrote one of history’s only known songs about PMS, a look-out-fellas-ladies-be-crazy deep cut that, unlike most of her work, has not aged well.

  • The lady who lived across the hall had gone to see her daughter in Georgia, and now she was stuck there while all her things were here.

  • A week or two later, I told the dog's owner how scared my kids are to go by their house — not because of the dog, but because of the "mean scary lady."

  • The only woman indicted in the 20-year history of the International Criminal Court is Simone Gbagbo, the former first lady of Cote d’Ivoire.

  • Honorifics should be used on envelopes, and widowhood does not change the lady’s form of address.

  • I wonder what that lady is doing now, and if she knows what she set in motion with Archer?

  • Lady Edith is so sad that her sadness nearly set the whole damned house on fire.

  • The Real-Life ‘Downton’ Millionairesses Who Changed BritainBy Tim Teeman Lady Grantham of ‘Downton Abbey’ is far from an anomaly.

  • Lady Rose is also rather subdued in the premiere, which is a pity.

  • “Officers had to go stop an elderly lady from being assaulted,” Sgt. Houston said.

  • The lady in black was reading her morning devotions on the porch of a neighboring bathhouse.

  • Grandmamma sits in her quaint arm-chair— Never was lady more sweet and fair!

  • The young lady, hearing his step, turned round and stood on the stair, confronting him fiercely.

  • See the ease and grace of the lady in the sacque, who sits on the bank there, under the myrtles, with the guitar on her lap!

  • At another time her affections were deeply engaged by a young gentleman who visited a lady on a neighboring plantation.